Cougar Town is on tonight, once again facing overwhelming counter-programming from American Idol, NCIS, The (gag) Biggest Loser, and a PBS documentary about The Amish (no kidding, it’s good). Is Cougar Town the little, misnamed-sitcom that can prevail, can retain an audience large enough to keep it alive?

Behold, my weekly video review, which addresses some of this, and contrasts it with the rest of ABC’s comedies, including Happy Endings, Modern Family, The Middle, and its lead-in, Last Man Standing: